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- 03/09/2018 at 8:22 AM
  eddie7978
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  hello my rabbit penelope is maby a little over a year old and she made a nest by ripping a ton of fur out .. she’s obviously not pregnant because she was never around any males..
  
  now she started doing this a few months back and
  
  we had just got her spayed yesterday and now i don’t know what to do with all the fur and nest she made i feel bad because i think she wanted babys she looks sad.. what do u think i should do?
- 03/09/2018 at 8:45 AM
  Sirius&Luna
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  Hi Eddie
  
  Don’t feel bad, getting her spayed was the kindest thing to do in the long term! While we can project our emotions on to rabbits, I can guarantee that she doesn’t feel sad that she can’t have babies. She’s just being driven by her hormones.
  
  After a spay, rabbits often have a hormone spike as their body adjusts to the spay. This is probably what has caused the false pregnancy, although I haven’t heard of spays causing false pregnancies before, with the hormonal fluctuations it makes sense.
  
  The only other thing to check is if it’s definitely a nest? Sometimes rabbits pull fur out when they’re in pain, and if she didn’t get pain meds after her spay that could also be a potential cause of pulling out fur.
  
  Has she been eating and pooping?
- 03/09/2018 at 8:48 AM
  eddie7978
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  she had made the nest months ago and i guess was doing it every since..
  no she was having the false pregnancys long before we got her spayed.. she was doing it months ago.. we had just got her spayed yesterday but there’s a bunch of fur and cardboard in her nest she made not sure what to do with it
- 03/09/2018 at 8:59 AM
  Sirius&Luna
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  Yes, she would have had false pregnancies before she got spayed due to hormones, and now that she’s been spayed, there’s a temporary hormone spike while her body gets it figured out. But after she’s been spayed for a few months, it should stop, probably within the month.
  
  You can get rid of the nest or leave it, I don’t think it makes a difference.
  
  Has she recovered from the spay okay?
- 03/09/2018 at 9:19 AM
  eddie7978
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  she’s pooping but we had meds to give her for her stomach and pain and critical care if she doesn’t eat
- 03/09/2018 at 9:35 AM
  Sirius&Luna
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  Great news wishing her a speedy recovery!
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